Glad I Took Care of That One

Posted on August 11, 2010
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Late last week I decided to head up to PGA to pick up some tequila for the weekend when I was pulled over by a friendly neighborhood police officer. I was doing 38 in a 30, not too tough to do. He really just wanted to pull me over and make sure I had my motorcycle license. While he was running my tags and giving a warning I noticed something a bit funny with my front tire on the bike. I could see the fabric in about eight places round the sidewall of the rubber…not good. I probably only had a few more miles before the damn thing would have failed on my and my luck, it would have been on I-95.

So, today I headed over to my favorite motorcycle shop for a replacement front tire and installation. The guys over there, rock. Tire was only $110 and installation was only $40 so I was stoked all together it was under $200. When I blew my back tire I spent way more considering I had to buy the tools to get it done as well as the tire.

So, needless to say…I’m glad I took care of that one. The first few miles on the new tire felt weird though but I’m sure I’ll get used to riding on a good tire instead of a time-bomb.

Rockwell Design Studio Website

Posted on August 5, 2010
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After a day of waiting for new projects to come in from Washington I decided to spend the time waiting to finally getting the Rockwell site up and running. Loads of projects and a pretty basic design but hey, it works. There are still a few glitches to work out here and there but overall the day was not wasted. Not billable, but not wasted.

Have a look and let me know what you think…..Rockwell Design Studio, West Palm Beach Design and Development Studio

San Juan Trip – Just the “getting there” part

Posted on August 3, 2010
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After a day of recouperating yesterday I think I’m finally able to recap the trip a bit. Wow, crazy and tiring trip from the word go.

Mike and I hit the Palm Beach train station around 4am on Thursday morning after getting what I’d probably call, no sleep. It’s tough to get some rest when you know you have to get at 3am to travel for a day. After getting to the station we barely made the train, running our asses off over the terminal bridge. Two hours later we were in Miami but wow, that will wake you up at 4am.

The flight left at 7:45 though our boarding pass said “boarding at 7:45″ so guess what we had to do… that’s right, run to the damn terminal after breakfast and a couple beers. Finally on the plane we tried to get some rest. It’s not easy to sleep in the middle seat, yeash.

Once we landed off to the hotel, an easy 5 minute ride. The hotel check in time was 4pm but we got there some time around 11. They said just hang out and we’ll have it ready as soon as possible so off to the pool for a cocktail or two. We found a local grocery store after some mis-information from the bartender and picked up some booze and plastic bottles to mix out own drinks in. Grabbed a cheeseburger and waited in the lobby….

After 5 hours of that… we finally had a room! Yeah, check in time was 4pm. Finally we could get some rest. Mike and I got a few hours of sleep then the real fun began…

Getting Out of Town for the Weekend

Posted on July 28, 2010
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I’m heading to Puerto Rico, baby. It looks like it’s not going to be a surf trip but it’ll be good to get out of town for a weekend. The weeks have been so busy with work and the weekends so busy with pool-side antics it’s time for a break. Though it probably won’t be much of a break from the antics.

My neighbor Mike has a free hotel room in San Juan he told me about in May so all I have to pay for is a ticket. Not bad. We’ll be back on Sunday sometime but the trip there will take some effort.

In lieu of taking a car down to Miami airport we’re taking the train from here in West Palm down. I hear it’s a 2 hour train ride, which almost how long it would have taken if drove. The flight leaves at 8 am so guess what, we’ll be on the train at 4 am just to make the transfer to the airport, customs, etc. This should be interesting…interesting but fun. Check my facebook periodically for updates. I don’t have a small camera any more after Jamie’s going away grill out so the iPhone camera will have to do.

See you when I get back!

Rockwell Design Studio – I Finally Incorporated

Posted on June 30, 2010
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Rockwell Design Studio

I finally pulled the trigger and incorporated last week. It’s been so busy around here I haven’t had time to do anything with it (or update the blog for that matter). I did however get the full incorporation, corporate bank account and EIN which should save my ass come tax time. At least that’s what I’m hoping.

All new clients and some old ones are all now going through Rockwell.

After month, literally months of going over around 90 business names I kept coming back to Rockwell. It just rolls off the tongue and luckily http://www.rockwelldesignstudio.com was available. What luck! There’s nothing there at the moment. Yet another project for me to get rolling when I have time to think and my eyes aren’t burning out of my skull from staring at the computer screen.

If I have time today I’ll try and get up a “coming soon” page before I really dive into design and development.

keep looking »

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    I'm a seasoned 33 year old web designer originally from Cincinnati (born in Wilmington) and now living in West Palm Beach. I specialize in high-end PHP and CSS sites as well as fully functional Wordpress and E-commerce sites for various clients.

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